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The Kiosks

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	There are now two kiosks created, Lemon based on Ubuntu and Cinnamon based on Mint. As both are desktop builds they both have browsers so they could both administer consoles like Pfsense.		There are now two kiosks created, Lemon based on Ubuntu and Cinnamon based on Mint. As both are desktop builds they both have browsers so they could both administer consoles like Pfsense.

			==[[Homelab Dashboard]]==

			As a major shift in the method of control of the Homelab we are creating a new dashboard to monitor and control the entire network infrastructure, sites & services. Initially it will be based on Dashy as an experiment but some other may replace it if it does not meet expectations. more details can be found '''[[Homelab Dashboard \| here]]'''

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Introduction

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	The '''[[Home Lab]]''' has many quite a few [[Systems & Services]] now and some of the are quite sensitive. We could administer them from the internet but at the moment that is too much of a security risk to setup for the limited gain so for now we will restrict access to the '''[[Virtual Machines]]''', to that end we have dedicated management consoles on a restricted VLAN. To begin with we had a single console with the hostname lemon and that was the sole means of administration but it became a it too sluggish with the Ubuntu desktop so we created another desktop as well based on Mint Cinnamon.		The '''[[Home Lab]]''' has many quite a few '''[[Systems & Services]]''' now and some of the are quite sensitive. We could administer them from the internet but at the moment that is too much of a security risk to setup for the limited gain so for now we will restrict access to the '''[[Virtual Machines]]''', to that end we have dedicated management consoles on a restricted VLAN. To begin with we had a single console with the hostname lemon and that was the sole means of administration but it became a it too sluggish with the Ubuntu desktop so we created another desktop as well based on Mint Cinnamon.

	==The Management VLAN==		==The Management VLAN==

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	The '''[[Home Lab]]''' has many quite a few ~~servers and services~~ now and some of the are quite sensitive. We could administer them from the internet but at the moment that is too much of a security risk to setup for the limited gain so for now we will restrict access to the '''[[Virtual Machines]]''', to that end we have dedicated management consoles on a restricted VLAN. To begin with we had a single console with the hostname lemon and that was the sole means of administration but it became a it too sluggish with the Ubuntu desktop so we created another desktop as well based on Mint Cinnamon.		The '''[[Home Lab]]''' has many quite a few [[Systems & Services]] now and some of the are quite sensitive. We could administer them from the internet but at the moment that is too much of a security risk to setup for the limited gain so for now we will restrict access to the '''[[Virtual Machines]]''', to that end we have dedicated management consoles on a restricted VLAN. To begin with we had a single console with the hostname lemon and that was the sole means of administration but it became a it too sluggish with the Ubuntu desktop so we created another desktop as well based on Mint Cinnamon.

	==The Management VLAN==		==The Management VLAN==

Wikisailor: /* Introduction */

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Introduction

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	==Introduction==		,==Introduction==

	The '''[[Home Lab]]''' has many quite a few servers and services now and some of the are quite sensitive. We could administer them from the internet but at the moment that is too much of a security risk to setup for the limited gain so for now we will restrict ~~that~~ to the ~~LAN so~~ to that end we have dedicated management consoles on a restricted VLAN. To begin with we had a single console with the hostname lemon and that was the sole means of administration but it became a it too sluggish with the Ubuntu desktop so we created another desktop as well based on Mint Cinnamon.		The '''[[Home Lab]]''' has many quite a few servers and services now and some of the are quite sensitive. We could administer them from the internet but at the moment that is too much of a security risk to setup for the limited gain so for now we will restrict access to the '''[[Virtual Machines]]''', to that end we have dedicated management consoles on a restricted VLAN. To begin with we had a single console with the hostname lemon and that was the sole means of administration but it became a it too sluggish with the Ubuntu desktop so we created another desktop as well based on Mint Cinnamon.

	==The Management VLAN==		==The Management VLAN==

Wikisailor: /* Introduction */

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Introduction

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	==Introduction==		==Introduction==

	The ~~Homelab~~ has many quite a few servers and services now and some of the are quite sensitive. We could administer them from the internet but at the moment that is too much of a security risk to setup for the limited gain so for now we will restrict that to the LAN so to that end we have dedicated management consoles on a restricted VLAN. To begin with we had a single console with the hostname lemon and that was the sole means of administration but it became a it too sluggish with the Ubuntu desktop so we created another desktop as well based on Mint Cinnamon.		The '''[[Home Lab]]''' has many quite a few servers and services now and some of the are quite sensitive. We could administer them from the internet but at the moment that is too much of a security risk to setup for the limited gain so for now we will restrict that to the LAN so to that end we have dedicated management consoles on a restricted VLAN. To begin with we had a single console with the hostname lemon and that was the sole means of administration but it became a it too sluggish with the Ubuntu desktop so we created another desktop as well based on Mint Cinnamon.

	==The Management VLAN==		==The Management VLAN==

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==Introduction==

The Homelab has many quite a few servers and services now and some of the are quite sensitive. We could administer them from the internet but at the moment that is too much of a security risk to setup for the limited gain so for now we will restrict that to the LAN so to that end we have dedicated management consoles on a restricted VLAN. To begin with we had a single console with the hostname lemon and that was the sole means of administration but it became a it too sluggish with the Ubuntu desktop so we created another desktop as well based on Mint Cinnamon.

==The Management VLAN==

WE have a a dedicated management VLAN 99 that is the sole means of administering the Pfsense Firewall and other services like Prometheus and Grafana. By keeping these services only available to this specific VLAN their is little chance of any outside influence modifying any of the essential services because the hostile actor would have to compromise the management kiosk first and the simple expedient of leaving the VM stopped would make that impossible.

==The Kiosks==

There are now two kiosks created, Lemon based on Ubuntu and Cinnamon based on Mint. As both are desktop builds they both have browsers so they could both administer consoles like Pfsense.